september 2025

more reading this month. spent a total of 7 HOURS at pepboys (over two visits) for new tires and alignment, plus an oil change. ...don't even ask why it took so long... also, i made an effort to finish my book since i'm not taking one to europe next month. 

edge of tomorrow [2014], the squid and the whale [2005]

best american food writing 2019 (ed: samin nosrat)

the guardian - ‘Being short is a curse’: the men paying thousands to get their legs broken – and lengthened

the atlantic -  Modern Dentistry Is a Microplastic Minefield
"A plastic-bristled toothbrush may add approximately 30 to 120 microparticles of plastic to your diet with each brushing, according to one study. Another put the estimate at an average of 39 particles a day. Either calculation suggests that a plastic toothbrush adds tens of thousands of particles to one’s yearly load of microplastics, which is significant when considering that estimates of microplastic exposure from food, air, and water put a person’s yearly particle load at more than 100,000."

the atlantic - The States Where It’s Riskier to Have a Baby 
"...although the overall risk of dying from pregnancy is low, mothers living in states where abortion is banned were nearly twice as likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth compared with mothers living in states where abortion is accessible. In states with abortion bans, Black mothers were more than three times as likely to die as white mothers. ProPublica found that when Texas banned abortion after six weeks in 2021, rates of sepsis increased by more than 50 percent for women hospitalized with miscarriages in the second trimester, likely because women were being made to wait until either there was no fetal heartbeat, leaving them at higher risk for an infection, or their infection became life-threatening. ProPublica also found that after Texas banned abortion, blood transfusions during emergency-room visits for first-trimester miscarriages increased by 54 percent, suggesting that doctors were avoiding performing D&Cs. At least four women in states with near-total abortion bans have died because they were denied an abortion, according to news reports. In a 2023 survey from KFF, a health-care nonprofit, four in 10 ob-gyns in abortion-ban states said the Dobbs ruling made providing care during miscarriages or other pregnancy emergencies harder."